The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse.

  • Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
Date:
1676
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    < i8 D E M o c RI r u s to the %eader. a Joviiis a Mahomet the fecond Turk, 300000 perfons: vit. ep0, Skinim Dentatm fought in an hundred battels, eight times in fingle combat he overcame, had forty wounds before, was rewarded with 140 crb’lvns, triumphed nine times for his goodfervice. Sergim had 32 wounds; Scava the Centurion I know not how many ; every Nation hath their HeUors, Scipio's, ^Comlmm- c^fars and Alexafiders, Our ^ Edward fourth was in 26 battels afoot : and as they do all, he glories in it, ’tis related to his ho¬ nour. At the fiege of Hiernfalem 1100000 died with fword and famine. At the battel I//, 3. of C^nnas^ 70000 men were llain, as * Poly^ him records, and as many at battle Albye with .us ; and 'tis no news to fight from Sun to ^ Sun, as they did, as Q)nfiantine and LicinitUy &c. At the fiege of Ofiend (the devils Aca¬ demy ) a poor town in refped, a fmall fort, but a great grave, 120000 men loft their lives, befides whole towns, dorpes, and hofpkals, full of maimed fouldiers ; there were engines, fire-works, and whaefoever the devil could invent to do mifehief with 2500000 iron bul¬ lets fliot of 40 pound weight, three or four cHift. of millions of gold confumed. Who ( faith fiege of mine Author) can be finfficiently amaz.ed at fofli' heartsj obfiinacy^ fury, blindnefs, 5* without any Ukelyhood of good fuccefs, hazard poor fouldiers, and lead them without pitty to the fiaughter, which may jufily be -called the rage of furious beafis, that run without ^ Eufmm reafon upon their own deaths: * quis malm u pLci- furia, qua pefiis, ^c. what plague, dm illHd what fury brought fo devillifh, fo bruitifh a animal be- thing as war firft into mens minds ? Who Tievolentia made 'fo foft and peaceable a creature, born to mmlT raeeknefs, foto rave, rage like eordiu in, ^^afts, and run on to their own deftrudion ? inutnam how may nature expoftulate with mankind, rumtpsr- Sgo te divinum animal finxi, c^c, I made maem, ^jjee an.harmlefs, quiet, a divine creature : how may God expoftulate, and all good men? * Rich Di-yet, horum fa5la ('as* one condoles j tantum {T'ieui & bieroumnumero habent :thek the gallants of the world, thefe admired alone, triumph alone, have fta- tues, crowns, pyramids;, obelisks to their eter¬ nal fame, that immortal Cenim attends on ^ ^ them, hac itur ad afira* When Rhodes was e jouius* befiegtd, ® urbis cadaveribus repleta funt, the ditches were full of dead Carcafes • and as when the faid Solyman great Turk^hed- XezgceAf'ienna, they lay level with the top of the walls. This they make a fport of, and will do it to their friends and confederates, ^ againft oaths, vows, promifes, by treachery or other wife. f Dolus, ’ f dolus an virtusf quis in ho fie requirat ? tiimiu hg,s inUr propiiabel-^^”^^d for their advantage, omnia jura, di- Inrnm nego- *vina, humana, proculcata plerumque funt • t'a. Tertul. Gods and mens laws are trampled under foot* g lully. the fword alone determines all; to fatisfie their luft and fpleen, they care not what they at¬ tempt, fay, or do, h Lucan. ^Rarafidcs,pr obitafq; viris qui c^firafeqHuntHr^ Nothing fo common as to have ^father fight k Fater in againfi the fon, brother againfi brother, kinf- I man againfi kinfman, kingdom againfi dom, province againfi province, ChriJHansZ^nZt I againfi Chrtfiians : a quibus nec unquam co- cum, &c. j gitatione fuerunt Ufi, of whom they never had ! offence in thought, word or deed. Infinite I treafurcs confumed. Towns burned, flourifii- r'fXl ' I ^og Cities facked ^\'\<ix\i\T[Z.tedL, quodque animus Uditur. ; meminijfe horret,goodXy Countries depopulated ^'^P’dws^ i and left defolate, old inhabitants expelled, trade and traffick decayed, maids defloured, perniefem, Vtrgines nondum thalamis jugata, betluarum Et comis nondum pofitis ephabi ; infiarjdn- chaft matrons cry out with Andromache, ^Loncuintum mox cogarpati ejus, qui intere-^ ubanii mit //f^orm,they fhall be compelled perad- venture to iyc with them that erft kill’d their husbands: to fee rich, poor, fick, found. Lords, fervants, eodem omnes incommodo maEli, con- ^ fumed all or maimed, e^c. Et quicquid gau- dens fcelcre animus audet, ^ perverfa mens, ' hkh Cyprian, and what fo ever fcorment, mife- ry, mifehief, hell it felf, the devil, ^fury andl Ird eniwi rage can invent to their ownruineand deftru- dion ; fo abominable a thing is war, ^^Ger-^cmfulmes'- belius concludes, adeo foeda abomihanda &c. de- * res efi bellum, ex quo hominum cades, vafiatk ^tntts fa- ones, gfre. the fcourge of God, caufe, effed, fruit and punifhment of fin, and not tonfura^ll^^ii^^j humani generis, as Tertullian calls it, but m'-, qufif bel- pa. Had Democritus been prefent at the late 4|ivil wars in France, thofe abominable wars, emia fee- n daifiata, fZifl ^ Where m lefs than ten years, ten hundred n Gallmm thoufand men were confumed, faith Collignius, decies cen- 20 thoufand Churches overthrown • nay, the whole Kingdom fubverted (^^^Rkhard noth adds.) So many myriadesof the Com-20 millia monswere buthchered up, with fword, famine, war, tanto odio utrinque utbarbari ad abhor-excifa, rendam lanienam ohfiupefcerent, with fuch fe- ^UuGaU ral hatred, the world was amazed at it : or at 1.1. hoc our late Pharfalian fields in the time ai Henry fir all bello the fixth, betwixt the houfes of Lancafiex and ^ Torky an hundred thoufand men (lain, * one Sm/i' writes, P another, ten thoufand families were & regmm rooted out, that no man can but marvel, faith nmpUjJi- Comineus, at that barbarous immunity, feral dfm- madnefs, committed betwixt men of the fame nation, language and religion. ^ Quis furor terunt,ple- ■O gives P Why do the Gentiles fo fur ioufiy rage, bktot'my- faith the Prophet David, PfaLz. 1. But w^rladesgla- may ask, why do the Chriftians fo furioufly ^ . rabiliter Arma volunt, quare pofeunt, rapiuntque perlerimt* juventus P ^ Pont. Unfit for Gentiles, much lefs for us fo to ty- rannize, the Spa«iard in the Wed hdilsZ-Tt' . that killed up in 42 years (if we may believe nullus non ^ Bartholomaus d Cafaihtir own biftiop ) i2f^tcretur millions of men, with ftupend and exquifite torments , neither ftiould I lye (faid he) if Idellmm, 1 aid 50 millions, I omit \\\ok French ^Adiffg-'^barba- ... , . ram infani- am, qua enter homines eodem fub ccelo natos, ejufdem lingus, fangui- rns, religionis exercebatur. f\Lucan, ^Firg. r Bifhop of c«/fo ane ye-witnefs* ^ cres.